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English

Etymology

Alteration of diego (“Spaniard”), from Spanish Diego (common Spanish name) by law of Hobson-Jobson. See Mick and Jock for similar epithets.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?de????/
• Rhymes: -e????

Noun

dago (plural dagoes or dagos)

1. (Britain, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or other Mediterranean descent.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter XXVIII, [1]

     And all foreigners to him were "dem bloody dagoes"—for, according to his theory, foreigners were responsible for unemployment.

2. (US, Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

   Synonyms: Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, wog, wop

Usage notes

• The meaning behind the word is still highly offensive in the United States. It has become less pejorative among certain groups reclaiming the term in recent years, with people of Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese origin themselves adopting the term. In the Upper Midwest region of the United States, the term is used for several Italian-inspired food items.
• The term may have originated following British or American encounters with Portuguese and Spanish sailors. "Diego" is the Portuguese nickname for any deckhand. After transforming into "dago" in English and becoming a common term for Spanish and Portuguese people, the slur expanded in usage to then refer to Italians and Italian immigrants, another Mediterranean and Latin ethnic group.
• The Hill in St. Louis, an Italian-American enclave, is often referred to colloquially as "Dago Hill."

Derived terms

• dago dazzler
• dago red

Translations

Anagrams

• Goad, Goda, doga, goad

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.?o/

Verb

dago

1. Third-person singular (hura) present indicative form of egon.

Northern Sami

Noun

dag?

1. genitive singular of dahku

English

Etymology

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?de?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?de?do?/
• Rhymes: -e?d??

Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

1. (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
2. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
3. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

Translations

Verb

dado (third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed)

1. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
2. (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.

Translations

Derived terms

• dado rail

Further reading

• dado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• odda

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese dado, from Latin d?tus.

Verb

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of dar

Hiligaynon

Noun

dadô

1. a young fish

Related terms

• haloán
• haroán

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da?do
• IPA^(key): /?dado/

Noun

dado

1. (gaming) die; dice

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic ????????? (?a?d?d, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.do/
• Hyphenation: dà?do
• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

dado m (plural dadi)

1. (gaming) die, dice

2. (by extension) any small cube-shaped object
3. (cooking) stock cube

4. (engineering) nut (intended to be screwed onto a bolt)

Anagrams

• Addo

Ladino

Noun

dado m (Latin spelling, plural dados)

1. (gaming) die

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Arabic ????????? (?a?d?d, “numbers”), or from Latin d?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.do/

Noun

dado m

1. die

   • Como h?a moller q? iogaua os dados en pulla lançou h?a pedra aa omagen de ?[ant]a mari[a] por q? perdera ? parou un angeo de pedra que y e?tava a mão ? reçibiu o colpe.

     How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.

Descendants

• Galician: dado
• Portuguese: dado

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

dado

1. second-person singular imperfect active of dad?ti (“to give”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?da.ðu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?da.du/
• Hyphenation: da?do
• Rhymes: -adu

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic ????????? (?a?d?d, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) A die.

Descendants

• ? Malay: dadu
  • Indonesian: dadu

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese dado, from Latin datus. Equivalent to dar +? -ado. Doublet of data.

Adjective

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas, comparable)

1. offered

   Synonym: oferecido

2. granted, conceded (given)

   Synonym: concedido

3. given, fixed

   Synonym: determinado

4. friendly, sociable

   Synonym: afável

5. prone, inclined

   Synonyms: propenso, inclinado

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (computing, sciences) data; datum (item of information)

Pronoun

dado m (plural dados, feminine dada, feminine plural dadas)

1. a given; a particular; a specific

Usage notes

Optionally used with an article.

Verb

dado (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. masculine singular past participle of dar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dado/, [?d?a.ð?o]
• Hyphenation: da?do

Etymology 1

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic ????????? (?a?d?d, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin d?tum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.

Noun

dado m (plural dados)

1. (gaming) a die or dice

Etymology 2

From Latin d?tus. See dar.

Verb

dado m (feminine singular dada, masculine plural dados, feminine plural dadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of dar.

Derived terms

• dado que

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish dado.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?dado/, [?d?do]

Noun

dádo

1. A die or dice.